HI,all: I'm new to libvirt, and have some questions about How to get the IP address of a Domain? I searched the old mails int the mail-list ,found one way to do this,it is first get the mac address of the Domain,then used some sniffer or arp tools to fetch the IP address , but: Q1: Is there any APIs of libvirt to get the domain's IP address directly? If does not exist now , have any plan to add this api or some extra tools to do this ,just like the vm-tools on VMware ESX? Q2: How to get the domain's mac? I download the virt-manager src, searching it's source to find how to do this : in details.py , this line seems to get the mac address: in function update_hwlist(hwtype, info, name, icon_name): Line 2475 for net in self.vm.get_network_devices(): mac = net.macaddr update_hwlist(HW_LIST_TYPE_NIC, net, "NIC %s" % mac[-9:], "network-idle") then ,I looked into domains.py, in function get_network_devices(): def get_network_devices(self, refresh_if_necc=True): return self._build_device_list("interface", refresh_if_necc) next, go to function _build_device_list() def _build_device_list(self, device_type, refresh_if_necc=True, inactive=False): guest = self._get_guest(refresh_if_necc=refresh_if_necc, inactive=inactive) devs = guest.get_devices(device_type) count = 0 for dev in devs: dev.vmmindex = count count += 1 return devs finally ,in funciton _get_guest(self, inactive=False, refresh_if_necc=True) def _get_guest(self, inactive=False, refresh_if_necc=True): raise NotImplementedError() this puzzled me , only raise a exception NotImplentedError(),but not deal with it . How to get the mac address? Sorry ,I 'm new to Python either... Really appreciate for your help! wade